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Hundreds of corpses litter the streets of Nigeria’s main northern towns and Syria suffers its bloodiest day of protests

An explosion of anger followed the election of Goodluck Jonathan (Sunday Alamba)

Election turmoil

Nigeria: Corpses littered the streets of the country’s main northern
towns after an explosion of anger followed the election of the incumbent
president, Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday. The violent protests, sparked by
the supporters of the main opposition candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari,
have left hundreds dead, thousands injured and up to 50,000 people displaced.

Umar Marigar of the Red Cross said: “The violent protests turn from political
into ethno-religious crisis. As such, people might like to engage in
retaliatory attacks. This is what we are always afraid of.”

Bullets ‘fly like rain’

Syria: The country suffered its bloodiest day of protests on Friday as
security forces fired live rounds and teargas on demonstrators. President
Bashar al-Assad had lifted the 48-year-old emergency law — which suspended
most constitutional rights — the previous day but it failed to prevent
planned pro-reform demonstrations.